Hitching device



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' I. E. PALMER.

HITOHING DEVICE. No. 329,071; Pat'ented'Oot, 2'7, 1885.

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ISAAC E. PALMER, OF MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT.

HITCHING DEVICE.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,071, dated October 27, 1885.

Application filed June 29, 1888. Serial No. 99,540. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ISAAC E. PALMER, of the city of Middletown, in the county of Mid dlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement'in Hitching Devices for Hammock Suspension-Ropes and other Purposes, of which the following is a specification.

An important object of my invention is to provide a simple and'reliable device wherein may be adjustably secured by slip-connections the two end portions of a hammock suspension-rope, which is passed through a hammock-ring and around a tree, post, or other support; but my improved hitching device may be used in other situations for detachably and adjustably confining the two end portions of a rope which is passed around or through two objects to connect them together.

This hitching device constitutes an improved article of manufacture.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved device in connection with a hammock. Fig. 2 is a plan of the device on a larger scale, and Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the device and the portions of rope or cord which it connects. In Fig. l the hitching device and the hammock-ring are exaggerated in size relatively to the hammock in order to show them more clearly.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Adesignates the end portion of a hammock, and B the suspension-cords, which are attached to the ring C. This ring is divided at the point a in order to afford. facility for placing the loops b of the cords B thereon, and after the loops are placed on the ring the ends thereof are riveted or otherwise secured together.

D designates the suspension-rope, which is looped or passed around the tree, post, or other support E, and which is also passed through the ring C. My improved device is here shown as applied to the two end portions, D, of the rope D, to so connect them that provision is afforded for readily lengthening or shortening the rope, although it will be securely held against slipping when weight is placed in the hammock. This device is clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 8, and the manner of securing the end portions of the rope is shown in Fig. 1. The device is preferably made of cast metal-such as malleable iron or composition-and it consists, essentially, of two necks, c 0, near opposite ends, and eyes d d, extending at an angle to said necks, as best shown in Fig. 3. At opposite sides of each neck are guard-eyes e e. These simply serve .to prevent the rope from getting out of place when slack, and although very advantageous they are not indispensable to my invention.

A description of the manner of attaching one end portion, D, of the rope to the device applies equally to both ends. The end portion, D, is passed through the eye cl, then around the neck 0 and out between the portion of the rope and the neck 0. Any pull on the rope in the direction of the arrow s,which it will receive in the use of the hammock,wi1l then bind the portion of the rope on that portion between it and the neck 0, and will thus be securely held against slipping. When the hammock is not in use, a pull upon the protruding end of the rope in the direction of the arrow 8 will shorten the rope, and by easing up the portion the protruding end may be pushed inward and the rope lengthened. Each end portion of the rope is adjustably secured in the device by a slip-connection.- The device is here shown as slotted or open at the center f, and across this opening extends a depressed cross-bar, under or inside which may be passed that portion D of the rope which extends directly between the tree and the hammock. The bar 9 serves as a keeper for such direct portion of the rope, but is in no wise essential.

I am aware of United States Letters Patent No. 244,555, granted July 19, 1881, to J. C. Covert; No. 210,391, granted November 26, 1878, to J. Metz, and No. 283,719, granted August 21, 1883, to G. D. Mosher, and I do not claim anything shown or described in any of these Letters Patent. My device is distinguished from anything therein shown in that it has at each end an eye, d, and a welldefined neck, 0, from which the eye extends at an angle thereto. By this construction I am enabled to secure a rope in a manner substantially different from anything shown in the aforesaid patents, and for which the devices shown in said patents are not adapted.

In my application for Letters Patent, Serial No. 121,248, filed February 19, 1884., I have shown and described a device to one end of which the suspension-cords of a hammock are attached, and with the other end of whi'chare adjustably connected the two ends of a sus pension-rope, which is passed arounda tree or post for suspending the hammock. In my application for Letters Patent No. 121,247, filed February 19, 1884:, I have shown and described a suspension devicewith one end of which: the suspension-cords of a hammock are connected,and with the'other end of which may be adjustably connected one end portion of a suspension-rope, the other end portion of said rope being tied around a post, tree, or other support. Neither of the devices shown in my two said applications are adapted for or capable of use in the situation for which the device which forms the subject of my present application is intended,.and I do not desire to include any of the devices shown in my other tWo said applications in my present invention.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As an improved article of manufacture, the hitching device herein described, having at opposite ends necks c and eyes d, arranged at angles relatively to said necks, whereby provision is afforded for passing each end of a rope through an eye, d, thence around a neck, 0, and between the neck and the portion of rope which is passed through the eye, substantially as set forth.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, the hitching device herein described, having at opposite ends necks c, with or without the gua-rdreyes e, and eyes d, arranged at angles relatively to said necks, and also having'betweensaid necks the opening f and depressed cross-bar 0r keeper 9, substantially as set forth.

I. E. PALMER.

E1). L. MORAN. 

